Ooly a Baby Small. Only bftby small. Dropt from the ftkiee ; Only ft laughing f*o Two sunny err#; Only two cherry Up*. One chubby none; Only two little hands. Ten little toea Only ft golden head, Curly and eoft ; Only a tongue that wage. Loudly and oft ; Only a little brain. Empty of thought; Only ft little heart. Troubled with naught . Only a tender flower. Sent ne to rear; Only a life to lore. While we are here. Spring Is Coining. Willi drifting enow the fields are hid. The front is on the pane, The froieu river uioans and groans. And clanks hie icy chain, lint a happier time will soon an sc. For under Uie arch of southern skiee. Tlie ftprtug is coming again, sad eyes. The epriug is coming again. Through leafless boughs the rueful wind Wails low his drear refrain ; And from the icy uorth the storm Comes sweeping down amain. Bnt skies shall soften, and storms depact. And beds shall swell and venture start. And blossom* cover the plain, faint heart. For spring is coming again. The spring is coming again, gvxxl sooth. And store of cheer sl e brings. For icy gleams. the flash of streams, And the glint of glancing w ings . For the wintry day, the merry May ; Ft* snow wreath*, brings she garlands gay. With many a rollicking roundelay. And silvery caroling*. And if my spring-hope* should fade. And promise fruit in vain ; Should wiulry sorrows chill my heart. And cloud my Ufe with pain, I will cheerily wait for a brighter day. And trust that heaven will bring the May That, brighter and gladder forever and aye, Shall never fade or wave. NASBY 0T THE CBF&ABERS. Tkr Onptrasrc Crwsatle at th* laratn Pollock 4 ttltitrr ti*l tpa llo lum'i Jimrmem-—Ttc (imt Kalliurr. Joe Bigier, the infamus, an J Polloca, wich is worse, he\ been ai it agiu. There is an amount nv devilment in the buarams uv them men wieli biles over perpetooallv, and wich kin no more be stopped than kin /ermenfashen in cider. The Comers trill her to nee in its mite, and kill them two impious wretches in self-defence. The fact that Mrs. Bascom, the saloon keeper's wife, hex bin gittin a large assortment of etose in LOWsville, and that she's the only woman in the Comers who be* s second dress—and it wood be almost safe to say the fust one —he* bin taken advantage nv bv these feends to perdoose an insoxrekaben in our otherwise guiet households. Issaker Oantt's wife, Luciudy, and Deekin Pogram's wife, and his dawter, Mirandv, happened to be in Pollock's store a buTia some pork to bile, when, ex ill lack wood her it, Mrs. Bascom passed down the street. She hsd on * fur sack and a noo bonnet, and hed gloves on, and a muff, and a gold chain, and she held her head well up, and hed a ostridge feather. She wux a gorgeous site for the Comers. "See Mrs. Bascom. Mirandv," Bed Joe Bigler, callin the at*enshun" nv the wimen to her, ez she went sailin down the street They all looked at her, and rage filled their biuanms. "I never hed a biuaum pin," sed Mi randy, indignantly. "Why, I ain't got no shoes—to say nothin' uv fur overshoes," shrieked Lu cindy Gavitt? " Whv don't Issaker git yoo shoes ?" asked that villainous disturber, Pol lock. " He never hex no money," answered Lueindv. " Wtht did he do with the money I paid bim for his corn, two weeks ego ?" wnz the innocent question nv Pol lock. It wnz a spark nv fire in a magazine. " Hez he sold his corn ?" she asked, her voice qoiverin' with emoehen. "He dkl sell it to me two weeks ago," sed Pollock. " The ornery cuss I Why, he prom ised me n pare uv shoes and the baby rome cloze when he sold that corn." " Butj inv deer Mrs. Gavitt, sed this hypercwitikle sneak, " you know " Jest then Mrs. Bascomwas return in— "But you know," ha conknyood, " he bed to pny Basoom, becoz—by the way ther goes Mrs. Bascom agin* and aint she A stunner—becoz G. W. bed to go to Looisville to get his wife'swin ter outfit, and he hed to her wut laaaker owed him." 1 .. "And the mnnney for the corn, wich I planted aud hood, and ont, and shacked, hed to'go to put cloze on Liz Bascom, did it ? Liz Bascom hex cloze, hez she ?" And ibis enraged woman howled with emoebun, as did Mi randy Pogrom and her mother. And Pollock kept addm food to the flame be had kindled. "Here,"sed he to Lncindy, "is a lovfely piece *r velvet wieh wood make yoo an elegant sack, and, Lord bless yoo, how this French flannel wood make np into a and cloak for yoor baby ! It doe* seem to me aa though ißsaker and the Desk in mite let yon wimmin hev enuff money to git yoo some things. It sen a pity that Mrs. Bascom ebood lnev every thing I" Ef there is anything which'U make a lion ont uv a woman, it's the desire for dry goods. Pollock knowd this and he played it onto em. He showd em dry goods till they became raring maniacs. These three misguided wimmen left that store oroosaders—they wnz so many Jone nv Arks. Thrp'the mad they went to Mrs. MePelter's, to Mrs. Elder Pennibacker's, and to the wife of every regler resident uv the Corners, and they determined to mako a move onto Bafcotn. nod etop his bixni* any way, so that the money spent at his bar could be yoosed in gittin cloze for them and their children. They appointed Tooaday last ez the day on wich they wnz to make the raid. They arranged a perceseion, with banners onto vnch they wnz to write, " Leas rum—more cloze," and they wnz to visit Basoom and set down in his grocery and com pel their hnsbands not to drink so more, and Bascom not to sell em any thing anymore. There wnz wild forebodins of woe in Basooms, Q. W., hisseif, and Im&ker Gavitt, and Deeken Pogram and myself all sot with pale faces, dreading this invasion. lam a man nv resource. I advised that a barl be rolled- ont into his barn and a bar be extemporized there, where we oood get our mps, till this cyclone shood pass over. This. Q. W. consented to do, and thos fortified we sot down and awaited the attach The 6nn ootoe oat smilin, and it wnz warm enuff to go barefooted, and the Corners wnz happy. The peroeahen wnz to march at eleven. •'We arelost," Bed Bascom, gloomily. " Oh, that J should live to see this day," sighed Deekiu -Pogratn. " Let us comport onifcelves like men," sed L " This is a cyclone. It will only last a few days. Cannot we sub mit to deprivation for that time ?" Ten o'clock arrived. The wind set in from the north. Issaker rushed out and looked at the sky, and came back with hope on his countenance. "Ef this wind holds we are saved 1 Ha !it grows colder 1 There's flakes nv snow in the air! The preoeshen can't move. The perceshen ain't got no shoes." It did git colder. The wind came raw'and injicy blasts. We consulted the only thermometer we hev in the Comers, wich is a little nigger boy, on a wet plank, barefoot We determine the degree nv oold by asoertainin how FK KI). KVHTZ, 15t.litor mul 1 'roprietoi VOL. Ml. long be kilt idand out doors iu tliat way. 11 ia primitive but nkkerit. Half-past ton ! It sut blowin a Rale, j and wux ez cold ez bloo blaze* ! It | ana impossible for any woman, with out shoes or uuderelothes.to stand it in J the open air. Dei-kin lVgraiu oftme in, hie frosty I I nose glowin with jov, and he fell on i Has com'a neck ejackilstin, " Saved ! 1 Saved J" " lloorsy !** shonted Issaker davit!, ! " without shoe* and shawls not a cue sed one uv em kin git out uv door* to ! *b\v!" Baseom wept teers uv joy as he asked ; us take sutliiu. "Yoo see," sed IVekiu Fogram,"how Providence keers for us, Kf wo lied i wasted ottr luunnev on close and sich I the w immin wixhl hed us. Mnnney put in wimmiu's clozo is wnaa than wasted. , Ef they hed clove they'd bin hero this | mi nit, a torment in uv us." We wus saved this time—will we be the next? We await a fair day with j drc.L Pollock and Btgler will her them wirnmiu out whether or no, just as soon ez it gits warm enuff. I'ktrolxi v V. Nxsnv, (Wich wus Postmaster, i Treed ly a Bull. Henry Brumr, of Westchester, pur chased a bull of a neighboring farmer, and dispatched two of his workmen, named Henry Moller and Fritz Stamp/, to convey the animal to his stable. All ' along tlie route t.> Mr. Banner's premi ses the bull acted very playfully, fre quently jerking the ropes by which the I men held the animal, in anch a manntr as to send them sprawling iu the mud, bnt allowances were made for these ! actions by the men, ou account of his | lordship V>eing so young, etc. Iu due time the trio reached the ter minus of their journey. The men now proceeded to install the animal in his new quarters in the barn of Mr. Bru- i tier, but he suddenly took a dislike to the bam, seemingly ou aecount of its being painted a reddish color, and in spite of the earnest endeavors of the men to get him in they were unsuccess ful. Assistance was found necessary, and Stumpf held tha bull while Moller went into a neighboring held to call assistance, ou the artival of which one grand effort was made to get the animal ia the bam, but at this stage of the proceedings he broke loose from the men, and, raising Stumpf ou bis hums, < sent him heavenward with terrible ve locity. On the return of the man to the earth, the animal repeated the per formance, until Stumpf was uncon j scions, and left with hardly a stitch of ' clothing ou him. His companions came to his aid with pitchforks and clubs, , and goaded the bull until he became infuriated and turned upon them. Now < came the funny part of the scene, for ' Moller and a fellow workman had to run for dear life, closely followed by the foaming animal, for a tree located about thirty rods distant The men j reached the tree first, and Moller sue , eeedod in getting safely ensconced among its branches, but his oompanion ' was not so fortunate, for as he arrived > about midway up the trunk the head of the ball came in eooAaet with the tree with such violence as to shake him down. The poor fellow was in a truly piti able plight, but his presence of mind j did not forsake him, and he jumped up and ran ar >ni; 1 the trunk of tlie tree, closely folio wed by the bull, and finally got up the tree. Bnt the animal kept the two men up in the tree for nearly three hours, and the time would have undoubtedly been much longer had it not beet that Stumpf recovered con- 1 sciousneSs and proceeded to the resi dence of Braner and told hut story. Search was immediately instituted for his companions, and they were foaml still up the tree, cloaely guarded by the bull and nearly frightened to death. Old New York. " Harry Astor," was a rough sort of fellow who lived in the Bowery. He ! renewed in New York the trade which his father pursued in Waldorf. He I labored hard and was very economical, and thus in the course of* years of in dustry he accumulated s.'*lo,ooo. He had no children, and hence he be 3ueathed the entire snm to his nephew ohn J. This man never needed tlie legacy, which was but a drop oompre what exaggerated, but it is not. At tin first representation of the piece a largt number of the audience left the theatre in great alarm, believing that the place had really taken Are. This scene was of course constructed in a peculiar manner. The frames ol the flats and set pieces were made of two layers of wood held lightly together : by meaus of cords passing through ' holes. At the pre-arranged moment certain ports of the frame were jerked down, leaving exposed the other parts seemingly burniug—an effect produced j by small gas jets carefully arranged in rows aruuud tlie edges of the frame. Behind the heaviest set piece at tlie back was a transparent curtain, paint*d with fiercest flames, which, being lit I np from behind, glowed through the smoke in a most lurid manner. Drurn mond-lights and Bengal lire* were turned on the stage hi profasioti, pro ducing glaring cross lights. Pots full ; of lycocodium were placed over fur naces, to which werv attached huge blacksmith's bellows, worked by assid uous machinists with such vigor that the fismes were at frequent intervals | projected five or six yards high, where i tliwy caught at nothing. Vast funnels overhead threw out torrents of black I smoke mixed with inuocent spark*, which went out as soon as they took wing. Several machinists, costumed according to the epoch represented, persouaUxl the frightened servants run ning about and trying to escape, only they wore actually throwing moreof the innocent but fiery-looking sparks about in pre-arranged spots, and thus keeping tilings as hot as possible in appearance. Ami finally, helmetod firemen with hose in hand stood at the book of tlie stage, re ady to instantly extinguish any spark of real fire. The Famine In India. The reports from India are not hope ful, says ths New York .fun, ami (be gloomy prospect can no longer he de , nicd. Ip to March 1 the sum of #12.- 500,000 had been expended on the famine, and the expenditure by Out. 1 will amount to $75,000,000. And' yet for the need of a little extra use of rnoncv many thousands must die in the next /ew mouths. The Viceroy has not Ix-en willing to syendenough to perfect the means of transportation ; and he has b< on too hard u task master in ex acting so rigorous a labor test. Women and children are forced to shovel earth I iu rather a purposeless war before any food will be given them. The men are paid four and a quarter oents a day fur this labor, and the women are paid even less. At tlie present price of rice this compels them to live on two-thirds the quantity of rice furnished to convicts. But after the work is done the food is not alwsjs on hand, and o the toil mar be in vain. Of the 300,000 persons now employed on the relief works, one-half will perish from disease in the course of the summer. They are obliged to camp ont in the open country, where dysentery, cholera, rheumatism, and low fevers make sad havoc in tlieir numbers. During June and July the suffering in Bengal will be the most intense,bnt the distress will not be over until Octolier, as the rice which is harvested in August cannot be eaten for fifty days afterward. It is too fresh and green at first, and causes sickness and diroane. in a portion of Tirhoot alone, one of the famine conuties, in the middle of February there wei 85,000 men, women, and children at raj: gling on the roads in search of foo.l and government aid. . Deaths fre..i starvation had aire . unenoed, aud as the season advances the mortality will increase at a terrible rate. The Governor-General of Bengal, Kir George Campbell, was qnite right in his appre hensions. The Viceroy has shown him self unequal to the emergency. A Fifteen-Hour*' Walk Tor Life. A voung man named George Falk, of Baltimore, swallowed, as ho stated, three ounces of landannm and five grains of morphia, in order to end his life. There was but one way of saving him, and that was to keep him in mo tion. After relieving him as far as possible, his physician ordered that he be walked nntil he was ont of danger. At half-past 2 o'clock Sunday nfternoou he was put upon his tramp for life, and was forced to walk in the open air as rapidly as he could. His father kept byhini for a long time, and b friend or a policeman assisted. After some hours the father guve out, ztul finally officers and friends grew tired. At last officers hail to be taken from their beats And made to do duty in saving the life of the would be suicide. When tlie walk commenced it was with great difficulty that he could lie kept going, and so great was his stupor that at times he would almost fall like a stick. Fre quently it was necessary to catch him and move him on. He reeled at times like a drunken man, and then again he would revive considerably. The dreary, monotonous walk waskeptupwithnutin tormission until half-past six o'clock the next moruing, when tlie physician con sented that he should be allowed to take rest. The lifo of the young man was saved, but the struggle ter freedom from the effects of the drugs was a se vere one. To have stopped three min utes would have been fatal. Carsi. PAPA. —A papa in Greenville, K.V., has a daughter Kate, and Kate has a lover distasteful to papn. On the lover's birthday Kate bought a nice gilt-edged box of perfumery for a gift, and put into it: " The contents are as delicate and innocent as your love." Paps got hold of the box before it was Bent, and changed the contents for bot tles of soothing syrup. Kate is now heartbroken by the continued and un explained absence of her lover. A LIQCOR LAW. —The Legislature of North Carolina has passed an act en titled, "for the bettor security of human life." It provides that any per son who manufactures, sells or deals in spirituous liquors as a drink, of any name or kind, containing foreign prop erties or ingredients poisonous to the system, shall be punished with five years' imprisonment in the peni tentiary. CENTRE lIAI.L. CENTRE CO.. PA.. Till RSDAY. AI'KIL 23, 1874. a coal mint: on fug:. ft H|iur(cr Trlla t'a hal lie daw Iu I lluiuiug (aal Nlai Lata oue evenii g, any* a correspond i ent, 1 set out to visit the burning I'.ui j I'ire mine near Witkesbarre. The tnttu is about ten miles from the city, and u in a mountain aide from which tin apnea and housetops cannot be seen To reach it one tanat climb and descem several disagreeable stieps, and ufto. • he ha* proceeded as far as a horse cai • carry him, he is obliged to wade throngl j muii, mire, and coal dust, mixed to Uia stiff consistency which is likely to pul off a alioe at every stew. After leaving the earn age and |tusMng through a little village of miners, despite the mud, om • soon arrive* at the opening. There h nothing on the outside, save a mass o smoking ash-**, to indicate the imuieusi fire raging within. , The descent i* not made bv mean* o a shaft, but bv a broad roadway wlticl descends gradually underground to th< depth of nearly 300 feet. At the moutl | of the cavern there is uu immense fai which supplies air to those who an compelled to work iu the sulphuroiii mid deadly poisonous gases below Should that fan pause for oue morur-n in its revolutions alt the miners under I neath would expire almost instantly ' Once inhale that deadly air, uuiuilet with the pure sir outside, and hum at life could do uanglit but succuaib. Ot tho side of the turnout there is notbiuf : of interest ; the eye falls ujxin liaugh but dead vegetation, heaps of unbmkci coal, and masses of indescribable rub bish. There is a railway running u| from the Empire breaker below, but IK | care are passing uvea it* truck now, am the breaker itself ia silent. The still breaker is the first evideßC< that something about the mine is wrong Under ordiuary circumstances the tua chinerv, now motioule**, would be turu ing into the market hundred* of toni of coal per day. I us deeeud themine. Au old mat : precedes us, carrying a burning lan tern, lie is rudely attired, iu mug! | shoo*, coarse breeches, gray shirt, ami he wears a glistening leather cap. It i which is fastened a smoking and flam ! ing torch. A few steps, and only a few, and daylight disappears, there is u marked changed in the atmosphere, and the only thing oue secure certain about is that he re gradually goiug down. This underground descent, uu I like a moral decline, has no glittering ' attractions to gently lure oue on. On* feels constantly like turning back, foj • he can sec nothing save his guide and , the lantern, nor can he hear anything but the faint echo of coal and ditl i crualung underneath hi* tread. Thr cavern, however, is very commodious, and one has no need to crawl. The do -1 scent is not straight but winding, and occasionally one can recognize alu>v ami upon either side of him solid masse* of black, gliatt niug rock. A a i the journey proceeds, the air thickena and seems to become foul, as if th< immense fan outside was gradually • Slackening the spent of it* revolutions. One cannot help feeling an uneomfort- I able sort of a senaaUou ; for, a* Uo g l * I on, the atmosphere seems to gr-oa thicker and thicker, and at the same time the heat eccms to increase) st every step. Hotter and hotter grow* the air, hot ter and hotter, until it seems that one is snrrontided by blazing furnaces. Every strids onward fljqx-ar* to inten sify the wnmth, and mi man apparel seeais more than human nature is able to bear. The perspiration begins to start trom the pores, and the current of air constantly pouring in from outside ap|M-ars to be caught and subdued bv that dresdfnl and infernal heat which almost choke* and stifle* you. There is no let up to it; no relief. Suddenly there falls spun the aira peculiar noise, like the muttering* of infernal spirit*, away down in the deejiest depths of tbe universe. Htill on, and these mut teringa increase to a mighty .-oar, until by and by one can detect certain sounds above all others. There is a sound a* if made by falling waters, which gains and increases on the ear aa to the traveler vbies the rnsbing of a cataract. Louder And louder echo the voices, and intenaer and inteuser booomea the at mosphere. Humanity ord'narily clad could bear but a few moments a warmth a degree or two hotter than this. The old guidecoutinnes slowly on the way ; olointe of smoke envelop our heads, until the cavern, taking a pe culiar curve, bringa ua under a mighty arch, the floor and sides of which seem to be a mass of hissing, crackling flame. The distance i* between 'JW and 300 feet underground. Tho firo extends over this immense area of 1,200 yards, dread, awful and appalling, but inde scribably beautiful nevertheless. It looks like an immense sea of glittering gold, across the heaving breast of wtuoh pas and repass fho jt*t and richest combinations of colors. Blue, green, purple, crimson, mingling and inter iigugliog, posHing tuui repassing, dis appearing here and suddenly flashing up again there, tortnre the senses, oou fuse the viaion and leave one doubtful of the place whereon he atAiuls. Htmli is tho fire which your correspondent gazed npon, such the almighty king of these dreadful subterranean realms. It hisses, it ronrs, it flashes np, and smokes, driving back the men and bc fonlingthe air. There are persons down there, huniAti lieitigH like ourselves, who have spent many months of their piret in fighting this fire, and who will spend many months of their lives yet to come. They nrc terrible looking creatures when thus engaged in their work, whose besmear ed faces and rough blackened formr give them the appearance of devils rather than of men. They spend hut a few hours here, for so intense is the best that new men mnst come very fre quently to their relief. As it is, scarce ly a day passes during which some poor fellow does not yield to theso un derground elements and is carried out insensible. It muat l>e an awful life to lead, and awful, indeed, the circum stances which compel so many to en dure it. From tho outside of tho mine run down to these dreary depths largo iron pipes filled with volumes of water. When thyr jrach a certain point below they divide into other pipes fif smaller capacity, to each of which aro connected largo pieces of hoae. With theso hose the men attack the fire at tho edges with the hope that they may extinguish it inch by inch. It is a slow and pain ful work, and a process that to the ob server appears hopeless of any future success. Contemplate it. A nre larger than any you have seen, not formed of timber or of loose combustible mate rial, bnt of solid rock. It extends over 1,200 yards, and represents millions of dollars worth of coal. ' The arches abo Toil,oil, the avenues leading from it, fraught with poisonous gases, stifling to the senses and ruinous to the health —a mighty conflagration, to be fought with water inch by inch for yeare and years to oorao ; for, while "its edges miy be cooled, its roaring centre is gradually finding downward, no one knows to what unheard of depth. To accurately describe the full ex tent, or to express in detail the dis astrous effects of this burning coal mine, one must needs spend many an hour thus underground, whioh to one who is not used tv it in impossible. Oue run ouly hurry down fur a moment, bMiu even tit nuuiuier h|'|>um 1 ho would bo I obliged to quickly rot urn to get u breath of air. Tito following flgiirt-a represent tho extent of the tiro, tho number of mon required to tight it, tho loan to tho company (tho Lehigh and WilkaUarre Goal and Iron Company), . and tho amount of coal which, wor tho mon at work in the mine*, they could giro to the market. There arc at present engaged in bat tling the flames two large companies of j mou, each of which ia made up of four j different and distinct gauga. Those gauge, or shifts, aa the minor* call thorn, relieve each other at different prrioda ■of the day and night, at leant two gauga always being at work and ap proaching each other at varioua poiuta. Four ahifta comprehend 80 men each, and four othvra 52 men each ; ao that in the tirat company there 320 individu ate, and in the xcooud 208, making in all a total of 528 persons. These men are employed upon haluric* which vary ! from two to three dollars per day. Two dullara and a half is almut the average rate. Hence to contend with the flame* it coat* the company 81,320 daily. In i one week it coat* 80,240 ; in one month, 988,900; while in one year, and from the preset condition of affairs, 1 am safe in a—.iiuiuj. that the lire will last ' three time* that long, thcounipany will have apeiit 8413,520 at the lowest pos sible estimate. The capital stock of the oomjiauy i* generally conceded to be gl0,(100,1100, but it would only re quire a few years' fighting of the "fire* in this Empire Mine to totally consume it. Nor i* tliis all. Were these 528 men, instead of plying the hoae, engaged in mtniug coal, tkev would each tarn ont three too* per a*y, or a total per diem of 1,584 tons. I understand that every ton of coal is here valued at $3, so that in contend ing with their misfortune the company not only pays 51.320 per day, but also j leaves 94,750 worth of black diamonds slumbering in the mine* ; hence in one week the company, throagh the fire, ■ loses in coal alone, which were it not for the fire might be exhumed, 933,204 ; in one mouth, $13*2,956 ; in oue year, i the immense sum of $1,595,472. The fire ha* boon raging since Janu ! ary ; therefore, bv the cud of March the oompsny will have spout in quench ing the flame* SIIO,BBO, while at the same time it will have lost 9398,868 in coal which, had the fire uot broken out, I tie miners would have taken from the earth. Sell the lUcrra. At the time when the rivalry and jealousy of the great Whig leaders, Messrs. Clay and Webster, disturbed the harmony and menaced the integrity j of the partv, Mr. Keatou, of the ,Vu tiunal hil'lliymctr, then Mayor of Washington, eutertamcd at his hospita ble mansion a large company of the moat couapicucua gentlemen in the city belonging to that organisation. . Oue object w.re to famish an eligible ! opportunity for those of the same political creed to ooufer freely at the social board, with a view to securing unity of actum in Congress. Mr. Msaton had great faith in the softening influence of discreet convivialitr, ami being a genial host, of t-h gaut address and winning manners, no man in Waahiiigton was better filled to manage lan affair of the kind. He was univer sally popular, never said or did an un grnoio** thing, and hit entertainment* were always a SUCCes*. There was a genural attendance of the Whigs, iti | eluding Congressmen and members of i the cabinet, and SOJIC prominent offi cer* of the army and navy—(leneral Scott, whose Presidential aspirations I had given much uneasiness to several gentlemen whose eyes were turned in the same direction, besides Mr. Web ster and Mr. Clay. It was a jolly time, high living being a prevalent weakness of politicians in Wasnington. The situation had been ■ (Harassed, several prominent gentlemen having frankly expressed their views. Obviously there was a lack of harmony among the leader*. At this stage of | the consnltatian, Cost Johnson, speak ing in atone so loud as to arrest the at tention of the company, begged per mission to relate an anecdote which he 1 thought applicable to the matter under consideration. "Go on! go on!" re sounded from all parts of the room. " A neighbor of mine in Washington connty, n wealthy planter, wns much addicted to hoi so-racing. Tho turf I was a passion with him. lie had a stable of fine horses of the purest blood, and he attended every meeting, far and near, if the race-course was ac cessible. His horses ran well, but \ he never won a pnrse. After repeated | disappointments he fold hi* trainer j that be had made tip his mind to sell his racing stud and retire frotn the field. ' Don't do dat, mass a,' said the darkey ; ' deni's first-rate hosses, and run like de wind.' ' lint they never win a race, and I am determined to sell them.' 'Fray don't, massa dey's I good for something—dey oan just beat one nuodder.'" There was a loud langh at the story ; bnt it was observed that Messrs. (Hay, Webster, and Bcott did not seem to en joy it as much as the rest of the com pany. No llojte for the Fenian Convicts. In the English House of Commons' i Mr. Anderson asked how many Fenian • oenviot* were still undergoing sentence, where they were imprisoned, and whether the Government wus or was not of the opinion tliAt the time had come for their release. Mr. Cross, the Home Minister, re plied that the total number of these prisoners was sixteen. Two were now j undergoing sentenco for the Manches ter murder, bnt none for the Clerken- j well nntroge. Two others were under ' sentence of imprisonment for fifteen i years, one for seven vears, and eleven i —who had been soldiers—were sen- I tenced for life, having lcen convicted j of snpplving arms to and otherwise as- J listing the insurgents. They were dis- ; tribntcd as follows : Throe were in England, eight in one part of Australia and two in another, and three in Ire land. Mr. Cross oonclnded by declar ing that the Govcmmcut had no inten tion of interfering with tho execution j of their sentence. This annouueement ; was received by tlio House with cheers. WII.I, NOT YIELD. —Iu tho New York debtors' prison there is a mail who has been confined for four years for con- i tempt of court. Every few months he is t.iken into court and given tho privi lege of apologizing nnd discharge, but he declares he was right and that he will not yield. So he lingers on year after year, " Pickvick and principle," aa Weller would aay. JnrrrEß.—Now that the great planet Jupiter is so near the moon, the oppor tunity for a popular acquaintance with him re worth improving. Through an ordinary opera-glass two of his (satel lites can be seen, and a common house telescope will reveal the remaining two also. A man out West was offered a dish of macaroni soup, but declined it, declar ing they could not play off any biled pipe-stems on him. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, IHr erance throughout the eountrv. Three thousand reformed drunkards marched in procession that day in Bal timore alone. The following summer was one of nrodigiou* activity in the cause. Nearly every distillery in Brook lyn was closed ; in New York meeting* were held weekly in fifty-two halls, and signatures were received for the pledge at tlie rate of two hundred a day. The production of liquor in the country had decreased absolutely oue lialf, and relatively to the population was not a third of what it had been ten years before. Before the close of 18t2, also, the organization of the " Cold Water Armies," and lodges of the " Order of the Sons of Temperance " hail begun, the latter being devised for the relief of reformed men in destitute circumstances. The Yarn Pelt of that day was Alexander Welsh, of New York, known as " king of the rum sellers," who took the stamp as an ad vocate of total altstinence with great effect. Five fire companies in New York and two in Brooklyn surrendered to tlie prevailing enthusiasm ; the May or of the former city, and very gener ally the municipal and State officials of New York, publicly discountenanced the use of alcoholic beverages. The jeriod Of natural reaction vra* to some extent postponed by the advent of John B. Go ugh in the field in 1844. In June of tliat year Mr. (lough and Rev. Dr. John Marsh, Secretory of tlie American Temju'rance I'uiou, made a tour of New York Htste, arousing great fervor and excitement wherever they went From 1844, howeTer, tlie decline of tie revival in the jwpular heart be gun. It was marked by the initiation of attempts to carry the movement into politics, nud secure the enactment of prohibitory laws. In 1846 tlie |eoule of New York Toted on license or 110 license. A tremen dously energetic campaign was made by the teiupermnee forces, and a bill enacting prohibition outside of New Y'ork city, was passed by an aggregate majority ol over 45,000. The law, from tlie day of its passage, was virtually s dead letter, and alcohol bcg.au to regain its lost territory. In the meantime, however, the German brewer had begun to get n foothold in the land, and the growing use of his milder beverage prevented anything like a complete re lapse into that excessive consumption of distilled drinks from which the tcmjM'ranae agitation of IS4O had roused the country. It ia thns seen that the great t%iperance movement of the last generation continued in force at least four years, and attained dimen sions which hsve not yet been reached l>y the revival now in progress. Stage Representation*. The thunder of the stage, says OIiTC Logan, is easily represented. If the roaring of Jove's artillerr is supposed to be far sway, a large leaf of sheet-iron dangling from the flies, shaken gradu ally with s faster and faster movement, will give a sufficiently good idea of it This is the common mode of making stage thnnder, but it does not always satisfy the exacting. A common mode of " raising thun der," whew the clap is supposed to be near and terrific, is by a contrivance of wood, and somewhat resembles a Venetian blind. It makes a great noise, giving a series of irregular shocks, which, combined with the rattling of sheet-iron, imitAte a frightful thandrr storm pretty closely. A snow-storm is represented at the theatre by small pieces of white paper showered down from above by men placid ia the flies. The illusion is not verv striking, as, like the "supes" uuiler the sea-cloth, some of the assis tants arc apt to slur their work, aud the result is sn absence of the consis tency of nature. The costs and hats of actors who are supposed to have boon out in the snow are generally well dusted with flour, which, violently con tradicting natural laws iu its character of snow—though faithfully obeying them in its character of flour—does not melt awsy in the least when tlie actor comes in by the fireside. Machines for imitating the roariug of the wind are numerous, and succeed to jwrfection. One is a simple structure of wood, with a broad hand of silk run ning over a wooden wheel. When the wheel is turned, the wind is heard to losr. The noise of arriving carriages is easily managed by simply running n pair of wheels behind the scenes. Tlie cracking of whips is prodnoed by throwing small torpedoes on the floor. Animal cries are imitated by various machines ; but nothing so resembles the braying of a donkey s the voioe of n man who has made it liis special study. His Kjuras. When the Tiebborae claimaut entered the oonrt on the morn ing of his oonviction, he looked nervous and anxious, and seemed struck by the api>earauee of three men in plain clothes who were sitting right in front of him, and who up to that day had not ap peared in court. Their services were shortly to be required. They were constables in plain clothes, prepared to retire if the jury should acquit; but otherwise ready to lay their hands upon the broad shoulders of the man, who must have been more than human if these three strangers—so like the ex soctant5 octant demons in the old legendary ramas—had not inspired him with dis mal forebodings. Wide bands of black velvet about tl.a throat are again in fashion, with long ends hanging down the back below the waist. TVrm*: a Year, in Advance. The Literal Boy In the Hrkool. Among the scholars, when Lamb and Coleridge attended, was a poor clergy man's son, by the name of ounon Jen nings. On account of his dismal and gloomy nature, his playmate* had nick named hiui Pontius Piute. One morn ing, he went up to the master, Dr. Boyer, and said, in hia usual whimper ing manner, " Please, Dr. Boyer, the boys call tne Pontine Pilate." If there was one tlung which old boyer hated more than a false quantity of Greek and Latin, it was tlie practice of nicknam ing. Hushing down among the scholars from his pedestal of state, with cane ia hand, he cried with his nana! voice of thunder: "Listen, boys! the next time 1 hear any of yon amy * Pontius Pilate' I'll cane you aa long' aa this cane will last. You are to y 'Simon Jennings' aud not 'Pontius Pilate.' Remember that, if you value your hides." Having said this, Jupiter Tonana remounted Olympus, the clouds still hanging on his brow. Next dsv, when the same class were re-citing tire catechism, a boy of remarkably dull ami literal turn of mind had to repeat the creed. He had ' got aa far as "suffered under," end was about popping ont the next word,when Buyer's prohibitation unluckily flashed upon hts obtuse mind. After amo meut'a hesitation, he blurted out,"buf fered under Simon Jennings, was 1 eroci"— the rest of the word wan never uttered, for Boyer had already sprung like a tiger upon him, aud the cane was descending upon hia unfortunate shoul ders like a Norwegian hail storm or aa Alpine avaianehe. When the irate doc tor had disc barged hia aane storm upon him, he cried: "WJiat do yon mean, yon booby, by such blasphemy ?" "I only did as you told me," replied the minded Cbristohurchian. "Did as I told you T* roared old Boyer, now wound np to something above the boil ing point. "What do yon mean t" As he said Uua, he again instinctively grasped hia cane more furiously. "Yea, doctor, you said we were always to call •Pontius Pilate' "Simon J wining*.' Didn't he, Ram ?* appealed the unfor tunate culprit to Coleridge, who was next to him. Sam aaid naught, tret old Boyer, who aaw what a dunoe he had to dern with, cried, "Boy, you are a fool! Where are your brains!" Poor Dr. Boyer for a second tune was floored; for the scholar said with an earneateMMa which proved its truth, bnt to tbs in tense horror of the lreuned potentate, "In my stomach, sir." The doctor al ways respected that boy's stupidity ever after, as though half afraid that a stray blow might be unpleasant. Liquor Laws of ye Olden Time. Some of the old laws for the regula tion of taverns are rather curious. The following, enacted July 11, 1677, bjr the "Great and Gent nil Court," held at plymoath, will serve as a specimen : "It is ordered by the Court and the authorities thereof that none shall pre sume to deliver any nine, string Liquors or Cider to any perron or per sons whoe they may suspect will abuse the same; or to aiiy l>oyes | Geries, or siugle (teraons, tbo' protending to come in the name of any sick* prison, with out a note under t he hand of some sober person in whose name they ooine; on {tain of five shilling;! for every sueh transgression. Tlie etie halfe to tire Country and the other halfe to the ea lormer." Drunkenness wa* punished by vari ous penalties, which will seem amusing to ns, though doubtless considered 1 otherwise bv those who incurred them. Here * re s few specimens : " Sergeant Perkins, ordered to carry , forty turfs to the forte, for being drunk." " Daniel Clark, found to be an im moderate drinker, fined forty shil lings." " John Wedgewood, for being in the company of drnukaida, to be set in the j stocks." " A man who had often been pnn- 1 ished for being drunk was now ordered to wear a red D about his neck for n year." Such entries may l5 found scattered through the old Court Records, and oc casionally reprimands or dismissals for j drunkenness may be fouud on the church , records. Quite s trade Lad sprung up between the colonic* and France nud the West ( Indies. The colonies exported fish, pipe staves, clap-boards, and received i in return wines, rum and various other ; articles. Iter. Increase Mather, in a j sermon preached at Boston In KWfl, thns deplores the introduction {and use of rum : "It is s common thing that later ! years a kind of strong Drink, celled Rum. has been common amongst us, which the poorer sort of People, both ; in Town and Country, eon make them selves drunk with. Those that are poor and wicked too, can for a penny or two i pence make themselves drunk. I wish to the Lord some Remedy may be thought of for the prevention to this evil. Nearly two hundred years have flown J by since the worthy Mather uttered this wish, aud as yet no remedy ha* ap- I peered. An Affecting Farewell. Mr. Thomas Price, of the Swan Hotel, Cirencester, England, has received, through Lord Derby, a parcel from the Foreign Office continuing a watch and chain and appendages belonging to his only son, shot at Santiago through his counectiou as a seaman with the Vir ginias. The whole was wrapped in a sheet of note japer, noon which was written, in a bold hand, the following letter: "Santiago de Cnba, Nor. <, 1873. My Darling Farenta :I am now near my last hour. I am to be *hot this afternoon at tliree o'clock. There are about thirty of us. My God, it is a fearful thing to shoot innocent men ! My dear parents, I have always been a had boy ; bnt I never thongbt to bring this great sorrow on vonr heads. Give my love to darling Alice. Tell her I loved her dearly, aud I hope God will bless and prosper her. 1 shall try to get my watch aud chain sent home, and if yoti receive it, my dear parents, I would like dear Alice to have the lock' eta to keep in remembrance of poor Walter. Kind love to all mv relations and friends, and tell them I die like an Englishman should die. And now, dearest parents, I conclude this heart breaking letter, hoping we shall meat in a better land, where there are no sorrows, troubles, or cares. I remain, your ever-loving sun, Walter F. Priee. Muy God have mercy upon my ooul." ERRORS or THE COMRASS. Oapt Henry C. Cook, an English navigator and scientist of repute, made some ro-. marks before the Polytechnic Branch of the American Institute, on the errors of the oompass. He said that however careful navigators might be, deviations of the oompass oeuld not be detected snd corrected without s proper instru ment. To prevent the deviation was impossible, as long years of trial baa taught the British Navy. To correct them with an instrument, and save lives and property which might be lost in shipwrescks caused by such deviations, if possible. The finest emeralds come from veins of clay slate in the valley of New Gren ada. NO. in. I Kifcrts that Border on lb* Miraculous. Nut only nwmtthi t,. may Ix produced, but the frMluo msy be very powerfully effected by tlx Ufluene* of the mini oyer the body, my* Dr. Mrown-Mequaid. libra we hod leu uI treat Uapon*niw trulccd I' lie re arc tuauy Isc'i wtikh show that the •tscreuua* of ittiifc way baoow poiwmwas ftir a child from a mere t motion In Ux mother, and i-p<~rl*l}y from anger. And it is ware no* the .'iaiv of retry ■* to •vutd hugft it would certainly be tlx duty •if * young ia other who ha* to nurse a child. There are case*. although they a re not commufl, in whh h death ban rrotutod; and alteration, of health in children from this cauae are wy frequoai- A gwat uuuiy OJOJ WIW hare REACHED an adult uc owe their Ui health to uth an Influence To chikkood. Every one know*, atao, that the seorrtioa of hue. the secretion of tear*, aad the sneer two of aahvnar* very much under the in fluence of the nerroui system The purg ing of tlx bor?ls, which depend* -m a weretwn there, or a secretion in the liver, ia also much depandeni on the iaflwiict* of the Imagination The Isuperor Nicholas triad to sec what power there ia la the im agination lo Ural respect. litead crumb pflUwerr gir tn to a great many pal tenia and, a* a result, newt >f ttv-ta were purged, lo cneexe a student, wH of mudkmre but of thcuhgy, having the ai- that tin- word pill nrnuil a purgeJve, looked fur ''pill '* in the dictionary and the firm kind of liUb iliat be found there waa one compooud uia.ui> uf oprnm aad heabaa, both aaUiu gt-ms, autl ca|athlu at producing groat con stipation. lie uautaxl to he puiged, and i took a certain aumtxrr of ibtsc pills, and { instead of becmntng constipated be war pureed just a* he wished to ue. V omnia*; may he produced in the same , way. ih Croft, a French physiologist, ■ u-ils of s trial made in a hutpltai by s nurse I who went axoood and gave to all the pa tients a very harmless kind at I aad then u>kl tbein thai aha was amry that •he had by mistake given thaw, all very ' powerful emetics. Out Of 1(10 patkmu no i were aflc. Ux! as If they had taken the mom violent emetic and \< rotted for a long time. ! This we auo cm a very Large scale on sea hoard every ft'iatmer. 1 have no doubt I whatever that aes-mckueaa is in a great' measure due lu that, and if you could go an board of a steamer with the idea that TOO would not vomit 1 am well satisfied, from cxpenuuwiu 1 have mad*, that you would esuape a great dear of wa-eiCkaeaa, If you did nut escape it situgt-ihar. One fact 1 recall is very interesting. A pcrsutf had crossed, on one occasion, a small hay when it was very rough- There waa a man play ing the vhdm on the bush The person' 1 rtkr b> waa terribly sea alck and vomited a great deal, lie had not, of course, made up his mind that be could not be sick. However, the point is that alter that he could tcvcx hear a viulln without vomiting To pass to su in<-tiling mure serious: Vou have all hoard of what are called the Kiymaro —marks representing the wound* uu lha limbs of ChrtsL Tbuae n ark* have appeared In pcnutis who have dreamed * imagined tku liny were crucified and suf fenng the piuns of Christ, havicg invoked the poodmw if God to let them have that auficnsg to pun.ftfa them for their Uuha. The moat remark abla fact of that kind is that concerning bt Francis uf Assist Then- Is no doubt trial he had the mark as dear as poadb e. If rots cmnpire with thn I tart one which is related by Lrr Carter yon I will have the explanation of it. Dr. Car i aeroaVft that while a mother wax locking at . her child who waa standing at a window with the fingers on Use border of the w in- I w jum tinder the 'filed a*h, six saw the •ash cams down with grosl hirer and cru-b i the tluun finger* of the poor child. The mother remained unable w move, feeling ImmrdialeJy a pain on the three finger* at j the very place where the chi d had been in jurrd Her fingers swelled, an efPatiao of Mood Uwk pUoc and ulceration followed and ah* was a long time in being cured. II in the case of this mother the imagina tion could produce such result*, you will see ia the case of the i4gmsla the Tmtgiim tlun may have been equally powerful TSda Biver Rnn into the Ground. It is a well-known peculiarity of j Washoe rivers that they a!i sink into] ! the earth. Each river empties into j ! what is called its "rink,"' or lake. ! i None of them get ont of the State or empty into toe sea. This enrious fact t i was oure curiously accounted for by • queer old man who made his home in | the shadow of Mount Davidson. Said be: "The way it oome about was in | this wise—The Almighty, at the time ; he wws ereetin' and fashiocin' this 'ere yearth, got along to this atetien late on Haturdsy event n'. He had got through i with all' the great lakes, like Superior. Michigan, Huron, Erie aod themt hud made the Ohio. Missouri end Mireia ! sippi rivers, and, as a sort of wiad-tre. i concluded to make a river that would teat anything be had yet done hi that line. Ha starred, an' traced oat Hum j boUt Itiver, an' Truekee K.ver, an* : Carson River, an' Walker River, an' lbeee liivcr, an' all the other riven, J an' he was leadiu' of 'em along, calkelatin* to bring 'em all together into one boss rivrr, an' then lead them off •a' let it empty into the Golf of Mexico ! or the Gulf of California, as might be most convenient; but as he was bringin' I along his brandies—Truekee, Bum- ! t boidt, Carson, Walker an' tbem—all at I I PUOC it oome on dark, an' not bein' able j to carry ont his plan, he just tucked the lower ends of the several streams inter the ground whar they war, and ' they've stared tbar ever since." Keep the Children Warm. Dr. Brown-Bequard. in a lecture at 1 Boston the other nignt, said : " The application of heat to children is ex oeedingiv useful to help their develop ment, If the air toey breathe is cord, and heat ia applied to their limbs, but not so in, on to the body, they cer tainly grow faster. There is no qnes ' tion that iu northern climes, children who are not well clad, aad are not well cared for in regard to the heat sur rounding the body, do not grow eo well as children whe are submitted to the influence of heat. There is one thing which in this country especially is most hurtful and dangerous, and that is hmt 1 applied to the lungs. It is perfectly well known that the mortality of chil -1 drett in this country is enormous In the rammer months, and that chiefly through the influence of heat on the lung* ami on the belly. Digestion and respiration are disturbed, and death comes, as you know, too frequently. More care could easily be obtained iu that respect" What Constitutes a Car~Lan4U ' Some one who has been investigating the subject says that" in general 20,000 pound* is a car load, which might con sist of 70 barrels of unit, 7(1 of lime, 'JO i ef flour, 00 of whisky, 200 sacks ef flour, 6 cords of hard wood, 7 of sort, | 18 to 20 head of cattle, 60 to 60 head of i hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 6,000 feet of solid boards. 17,000 feet of siding, 18,000 feet of flooring, 40.000 shingles, one-half less hard lumber, < one-fourth leas green lumber, one-tenth i lees of joists, scantling, and all other < large lnmber, 340 bushels ef wheat, 960 of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley. 3® 1 of flax seed, 360 of applee, 480 of Irish i potatoes, 360 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 < bushels of brnn. The foregoing figures may sot be exaotly correct, for the rear son that rtiiiraada'do not exaotly agree in their roles and estimates, but it ap- 1 proximate* so closely to the general 1 average that shipper* will find it a great , convenience as a matter of reference. i Many actions, like the Kb one, have i two souroes—one pure, the other im- i pure, i ■ UMP" , (terns nf Interest. i Why * a this lilt* Ad*j|srmons • Beeauan there are twft heads und an ap plication. Remove wax fnwlbsfa* ly tepid water ; newer put ~a hard instrument iolothenfir. j'f (; { tf ... > L |i\ lK(h Haiti more fire depnrtoaaMt,ai>d ia one of the treat members. . ~ An obuervaat old lady naya that "no other living thing can go a* stow as a boy on an errand." : > A movement in on foot at Hoi yoke, ! Mean., to establish a kriafrirauco life ia an ranee company. , What trees are Iboea which, when fire . is applied to tbem, aw xartlr *key " were before? Aabes. The Eastern oyster refuses to spawn in the Bay of (ton Pwaetow He grewi very fat and then dks. t I. A Gwsnuui profeaeoghnn nadertavao ! the tofik of counting the hairs cm a * buffalo robe one by *. 1? A bey ret fctoUtfoeL [ bnk that din t kill hian Us owridnt eat L . suything, and that did. L It coat London four liteil *nd B fonr broken bones *> to honor to the ■ royal bride and groom. 5 i'aaoh growers are already beginning ' to complain v An Indiana paper b*ris i changed hands, the retiring editors valedictory was simple, "I've quit, and the salutatory of the new manager was. j * We've eueumrmted." Only tone families out of its former population of 15,000 remain at Pitbola i City, Pa. When they oeuaed to "strike < oil"' the "Wreak out." The nam post tors on the AUanta Oon tfitmikm pant to charge forpicturre toe same as reading matter. Tney call it a tat take, bat toe proprietors eey it's too Uiin . There Us minuter ore* Boopville, Ind.,who has been married three time# his first two wives being sisters, tad has third wife atepmothsr to first two wives. A boy ten years old pointed a gnu at his eistcr, aged 18, u Aritdsle, Wu.. lately, not knowing it was loaded, and •hot her throagh toe neck, killing her instantly. "I wish I oouldmind God as my little dog minds me," mid a little boy, look ing thoughtfully on his uhnggv friend. " He always looks so pleasedto mind, aad I doul" Cellars lined with fonr or five thick nesses of newspapers are said to b frost-preof It is un undoubted fact tbst some paper* do mebe thingu warm wbeueret thuy ga Mnstmb has appropststod §15.000 to be expended in tlx I |MUObHHI of wkeU fur ia tkm mathwmUrn oountiw whowe crope were destroyed teat year by grasshoppers. , The story is Udd of a Jeucoc. who, when at toe boose of a devoted woman vii MM to dttsv prmv&r s himeelfbv saving that V was not the spiritual M the finanetal dreoeu. New Yorker* having eebmUted the ton* of shipping bvtilt in Maine this year at twelve thousand, the Bangor CbwtmeeeM telle tbem thev are only a hundred thousand short of the mark. Three are young men who eannot hold a ekesn el yarn f thm* wrilboat wincing, but will bold 135 Gunds of a neighboring fsmily tor toe at part of a night. With a retienoe and docilft T that mreoertahdy phenome nal. ; . 1 Deodorizing night eed, and render ing it portable by the nse of dry earth i ia every year growing to be more gen crmlly adopted among the farmers who haTe" learned to value thia important fertiliser in tarn eeonomy as they ought. A man in Dabuqne pat his finger in to the mouth of a nearly empty powder horn. Beit,,; unable to remove it, he picked a hole in the side of the born and applied a match. The reault waa satisfactory, but the finger was released minus eonskJerdble cuticle. A man in a miff Tlumen,CaH tortus, felt a tug at hi* ooat tail. He kicked around and saw that it was being drawn in bv cog wheals. He rfubhed wjpoet and held en with all ills might while the ooat wus aiowlv torn from him. The struggle waa a hsrx one, but the man won. Lovers will oe glad to learn tlmt a big brother has cane to grief in Albany. A young man that he didu t ; like took his sister to the theatre. He 1 followed, and when they came out he i tried to take the girl awwy from her ' escort. It waa a very lively fight, and ! the result has been hinted at Tha London Ilornti gives the follow ing as one of the effects of the late royal marriage: " Bookseller-''Will Shave these volumes bound in ■is or Morocco, sirf" Retired Coal Dealsr—'Weil, if I canA haTa them bound in London, read '• to Bnasia. We must encourage tost Curtr now, yon know.'" A Strong Wlfiit. At midnight, a faw nights siucc, the Mgoal station on the top of Mount Washington reported a norto-west galo blowing at toe fearful rate of 140 mile* au hour — M shown by the anemometer —and a temperature 18deg. below sero. This ia the highest force ever attained by the wind in New England, so far as we know. A gale of sixty er seventy miles an hour will often blare down tree*. Ia the h niesta'* of the tropics, a force of 100, even 110 miles m hour is not onoommon. No human bring could stand before such a gala The people in the chained-down hot con trive to examine ths anemometer with, owt emerging—elee they would be swept off bodily and hurled down Tnck erman's Ravina The roar of such a mountain gale is terrible beyond woijls. An employee named Robert Maxwril, engaged by the Iron Company of Ne gaunee, Michigan, reoeniiy met with the following singular accident, it ap pease that soma men in changing the Outride of an old -boiler had und ben tine. As inside repairs were nreesaary Maxwell was delegated for the ssme. He went within the boiler, a lighted candle being passed in to him. No Hooner had this been placed inside than ND explosion took plaee and the mtm waa enveloped in flames. He was very badly scorched, besides other injuries caused by his frantic attempts to get out of the man-hole. , : iWtifi To* BUFFALO. —It ia asserted on goad authority that at the present rate ef destruction the American bisoo will become extinct in the next- ten yesje. Twelve years ago this animal had a range of 1,500,000 square miles. Mow it is confined to an urea of some 500,000 square miles, with the rate of slaughter apparently ou the increase.